Red Lake
Nation College
Public Community College in Red Lake, MN. Six-year graduation rate 46%.
Academics
Six-year completion sits at 46%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. 58% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 268 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 258 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $7,149 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Net price varies modestly by income — $4,771 at $0–30k against $8,975 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 90% of students get grant aid averaging $6,498, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 85 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $4,771 |
| $30–48k | $7,279 |
| $48–75k | $6,482 |
| $75–110k | $8,064 |
| $110k+ | $8,975 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Beltrami County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026